Billy Midnight

Wilhelm "Billy Midnight" Schnell (died 1899) was a German-American gunslinger of the Wild West.

Biography
Wilhelm Schnell was born in the United States to a family of German descent, and he became a gunslinger in the Wild West, becoming an overnight sensation after killing the renowned Rabbit Matthews. This made "Billy Midnight" a national celebrity, and he did speaking tours and re-enactments in St. Louis, San Francisco, and New Orleans; however, he also received death threats and assassination attempts due to his notoriety. In 1899, when Theodore Levin sent Arthur Morgan to find Billy Midnight on the bar carriage of his favorite train to interview him about Jim Boy Calloway, and a paranoid Midnight attempted to run away, thinking that Morgan was there to kill him. They duelled on the train's roof, where Morgan shot Midnight dead, photographed his body, and sent it to Levin, who attributed Midnight's death to Calloway.